Category: Astronomy
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Universe, Life, Divine.
Ancient alien life might have been incubating on strange exoplanets just 15 million years after the birth of the universe. Although nothing more complex than microbes could have existed back then, the possibility may poke holes in the notion that the universe is fine-tuned for human existence. (1) But why is that notion so important?…
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Science describes. Nothing more.
A new type of quasar found, puzzles scientists since the current theories do not predict its existence. (1) The process of science adapting to experimental data is so fast that we hardly ever notice the fact that theory comes AFTER observations… Science is here to describe… Nothing more. All scientific models will always fit the…
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This SHOULDN’T exist! [The Kepler-78b case]
Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn’t exist. This scorching lava world circles its star every eight and a half hours at a distance of less than one million miles — one of the tightest known orbits. According to current theories of planet formation, it couldn’t have formed so close to its star, nor could it…
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Black holes are the same. Black holes are different.
Black hole hair: Each black hole seems like the others. And yet even the most unique and uniform things in the cosmos seem to have some unique characteristics that make them individual – just like humans. (1) Everything is unique. And everything is the same.
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CMB, Plank, Earth: A fractal world.
The most detailed map of ripples in radiation left over from the big bang – known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB – will let cosmologists hone their theories of how the universe evolved. This new view of the CMB comes from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite. Just how sharp is it? Find…
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